Moving…

 Moving…

My “parents in law” started their married life in a converted chicken house in 1934…it became a three bedroom home over their married life, three bedrooms and one small bathroom for four active boys and two adults…heated by a wood stove that nearly ran you out from too much heat…and it was only 1/2 mile from where my father in law was raised…it has been torn down  now 

and is just a memory for the two remaining sons…and families…

The Israelites went to Babylon for about the same amount of years as my husband’s home..they married, they had children, they raised crops, they lived life…just as they were told…a generation plus a few years…

My parents in law never moved away from their original home, until my mother in law moved into rest home near the end of her life…

The Israelites moved to Babylon in captivity, but some had the privilege to return to their land after a prescribed period of time… to rebuild the temple, the walls of Jerusalem…which had been destroyed…under Ezra and Nehemiah…

The temple first…the heart of their worship…rebuilding stone upon stone…

 “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:“‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them. 

And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’” Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. 

All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all the freewill offerings.

Ezra.1.2-6

“When the people returned to the land, they were returning to the influence of God’s Word…the prophets Haggai and Zechariah helped encourage them while Ezra’s preaching the Scripture built them up..God’s Word gave them what they needed to do God’s work.”

Bible Study  notes

Isn’t that what we need in our daily lives? God’s word is  our spiritual sustenance, our daily “bread”…what we need to build up one another , admonish, live by..encourage, root out sin..learn from..be transformed by, renewed…etc…

Thank YOU….

Listen to Word of the Lord…

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